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Oisín (pronounced [əˈʃiːnʲ, ˈɔʃiːnʲ], approximately USH-een) is an Irish male given name; meaning "fawn" or "little deer", derived from the Irish word os ("deer") + -ín (diminutive suffix). It is sometimes anglicized as Osheen (/ ɒ ˈ ʃ iː n / OSH-een) or spelt without the acute accent (fada), as Oisin.
Devin is a unisex English-language given name, of many origins. One origin for Devin is from the surname Devin , which is an anglicization of the Irish patronymic Ó Damháin . The Irish patronymic is in reference to the given name 'damán allaid' meaning "fawn", [ 1 ] or "poet."
Some names are recent creations, such as the now-common female names Saoirse "freedom" and Aisling "vision, dream". Some English-language names are anglicisations of Irish names, e.g. Kathleen from Caitlín and Shaun from Seán. Some Irish-language names derive from English names, e.g. Éamonn from Edmund.
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Tyler. Another name that exploded in popularity during the 1990s, Tyler is an English name with a literal meaning: "maker of tiles." In the 1990s, just over 262,000 Tylers were born in the United ...
tassii/Getty Images. This name of Arabic origin has a fierce sound and a soft meaning of “beautiful and lovely.” 21. Masha. Not to be confused with Marsha, this one is a Russian diminutive of ...
Ossian playing his harp, by François Pascal Simon Gérard, 1801 Oisín and Niamh on their way to Tír na nÓg, illustration by Albert Herter, 1899. Oisín (Irish pronunciation: [ˈɔʃiːnʲ, ɔˈʃiːnʲ]), Osian, Ossian (/ ˈ ɒ ʃ ən / OSH-ən), or anglicized as Osheen (/ oʊ ˈ ʃ iː n / UH-sheen) was regarded in legend as the greatest poet of Ireland, a warrior of the Fianna in the ...
In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans , an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners . [ 1 ]